Red Machine

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<p>During the 1980s, Liverpool Football Club dominated English football, winning six league titles, two European Cups, two FA Cups and four League Cups. In<i>Red Machine</i>, Simon Hughes interviews some of the most colourful characters to have played for the club during that period. The resulting interviews, set against the historical backdrop of both the club and the city, provide a vivid portrait of life at Liverpool during an era when the clubs unparalleled on-pitch success often went hand in hand with a boozy social scene fraught with rows, fights and wind-ups.</p><p>The players featured here include John Barnes, Bruce Grobbelaar, Howard Gayle, Michael Robinson, John Wark, Kevin Sheedy, Nigel Spackman, Steve Staunton, David Hodgson and Craig Johnston, as well as first-team coach Ronnie Moran. Their candid, ribald and sometimes scathing recollections provide an antidote to the media-coached, on-message interviews given by todays players and combine to offer a unique insight to this exciting time in the clubs history.</p>

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<p><b>Simon Hughes</b>is a journalist and author. He writes for the<i>Daily Telegraph</i>,<i>Sunday Telegraph</i>and<i>The Independent</i>, as well as Liverpool Football Clubs official magazine. <i>Red Machine</i>won the Antonio Ghirelli prize for Italian soccer foreign book of the year in 2014. His other titles include<i>Secret Diary of a Liverpool Scout</i>and<i>The Torres Story</i>. Simons latest book,<i>Men in Whit</i>e<i>Suits:</i><i>Liverpool in the 1990s, the Players Stories</i>is the inside story behind the decline of Liverpool FC, as told by a host of influential characters associated with the team during this tumultuous period in the clubs history.</p>

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